CreateSymbolicLinkA broken on Vista Beta 2

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faber

Hi,

CreateSymbolicLinkA is broken on Vista Beta 2. It uses the first parameter
twice and ignores the second parameter.

CreateSymbolicLinkB operates correctly

- Faber
 
Sorry for posting 3 times. The MS newsgroup website claimed it could not
post although it it.

I realize this is beta, i was not complaining, i was reporting. I can woukd
around the issue easily.
I did search groups and web, and there was not any report like this.
If this is not the right forum to post this finding, what is ?


- Faber
 
My point was:

Shouldn't you be asking the software manufacturer why their software does
not work with Windows Vista (an operating system that does not exist yet)?
 
Mark,

The API I reported to be errorneous was called by a small test programm i
wrote myself. There is only the c++ source and the win32 api
CreateSymbolicLink involved.

The c++ source contains just the single line
CreateSymbolicLinkA("name1","name2",0), which errorneously creates a symlink
"name1" pointing to itself, and CreateSymbolicLinkW(L"name1",L"name2",0),
which successfully creates a symlink "name1" pointing to "name2".

I figure that MS would want to fix it and I am really puzzled that this was
not even discussed anywhere.

- Faber
 
Sounds like something you should report as a bug, I guess. However, MSFT
does not use this discussion forum for official bug reports.
 
faber said:
CreateSymbolicLinkA is broken on Vista Beta 2. It uses the first parameter
twice and ignores the second parameter.

CreateSymbolicLink[W] operates correctly
Click to expand...

I recall seeing at least one discussion thread where this issue was
known September 2005, but no feedback, follow-up or confirmation that
it was even reported as a bug.

For what its worth, developer-related Vista discussion groups are
listed at http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/support/forums/.
Although other Vista-related development groups such as WinFX are NNTP
accessible, these particular Vista-specific developer groups are
web-based or read-only RSS access only, last I knew.

Reporting a bug starts with the "Feedback" link on the Vista desktop.
I honestly don't know what your experience will be with trying to use
the "reporting a problem" section there; I've only seen its operation
in context of Vista beta testers.

Because its an SDK issue, you might also use the "Send comments about
this topic to Microsoft" link in the CreateSymbolicLink documentation.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createsymboliclink.asp

Alan Adams
 
Thank you for your helpfuil post. I tried both the msdn feedbar as well as
the web-only vista general development msdn forum. I hope the message
reaches the right individual now :)

- Faber

Alan Adams said:
faber said:
CreateSymbolicLinkA is broken on Vista Beta 2. It uses the first
parameter
twice and ignores the second parameter.

CreateSymbolicLink[W] operates correctly
Click to expand...

I recall seeing at least one discussion thread where this issue was
known September 2005, but no feedback, follow-up or confirmation that
it was even reported as a bug.

For what its worth, developer-related Vista discussion groups are
listed at http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/support/forums/.
Although other Vista-related development groups such as WinFX are NNTP
accessible, these particular Vista-specific developer groups are
web-based or read-only RSS access only, last I knew.

Reporting a bug starts with the "Feedback" link on the Vista desktop.
I honestly don't know what your experience will be with trying to use
the "reporting a problem" section there; I've only seen its operation
in context of Vista beta testers.

Because its an SDK issue, you might also use the "Send comments about
this topic to Microsoft" link in the CreateSymbolicLink documentation.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createsymboliclink.asp

Alan Adams
Click to expand...
 
faber said:
Thank you for your helpfuil post. I tried both the msdn feedbar as well as
the web-only vista general development msdn forum. I hope the message
reaches the right individual now :)
Click to expand...

No problem; you're welcome. I've not had to use the SDK feedback
myself, but I've seen good things said about them typically being
responsive and getting the issue appropriately routed.

For what it's worth, when looking at the kernel32!CreateSymbolicLinkA
function under the debugger, I would assert its actually the /second/
parameter being "duplicated". i.e. The string with the symbolic link
name is ignored and the target string is used twice.

(It's using kernel32!Basep8BitStringToStaticUnicodeString to perform
the conversion, and this routine re-uses the same thread-local string
memory location each time you call it. Perhaps appropriate for an API
where there is only one input string to convert, but not appropriate
for kernel32!CreateSymbolicLinkA.)

Alan Adams
 
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